Sometimes it’s the tiniest things that can bug you about a user interface like the color of your taskbar changing as your wallpaper cycles. This simple but clever hack will keep your Aero transparency on but your taskbar colors consistent
Windows 7′s useful taskbar is great, but if you don’t like waiting for the thumbnails to show up when you hover your mouse over it a taskbar item, a simple registry hack will speed things up. More
Windows 7′s useful taskbar is great, but if you don’t like waiting for the thumbnails to show up when you hover your mouse over it a taskbar item, a simple registry hack will speed things up. More
We’ve already shown you how to organize Chrome’s Aero Peek thumbnails , but reader coreyog writes in to show us that that’s not all you can do—you can also see thumbnails for all of your open tabs. More
You can shuffle around your running applications in Windows 7′s taskbar, but not the order of the window thumbnails it shows for each app.
Google Chrome’s application shortcuts turn any web site into a separate item on your Windows 7 taskbar, but unfortunately many sites have low-res icons that make your taskbar ugly.
Google Chrome’s application shortcuts turn any web site into a separate item on your Windows 7 taskbar, but unfortunately many sites have low-res icons that make your taskbar ugly.
It seems like every week we learn about a new tip to enhance the Windows 7 taskbar, and it’s hard to keep them all straight.
If you’d like to have empty space in between some of the icon sets on your Windows 7 taskbar to keep things organized and separated, this simple hack will get the job done. Lifehacker reader Virgilstar shared this excellent tip here . We tweaked it a little and made a custom icon for you those of you within the software to make icons yourself
Windows 7′s taskbar is undoubtedly a great addition to Windows, but if you’ve got more than one application window open, you’ve got to either click twice or patiently hover to navigate to an open window. Reader Richard details how he fixed this: I’ve been frustrated as of late with the Windows 7 taskbar (which led me to try hot-dogging it on the left-hand side as detailed here —by the way GREAT and useful tips in the 331 comments!). The fundamental problem was that you needed two clicks to navigate to your document if you have two instances of a program running.
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